SECURITY AGENTS IN NIGERIA SEA PORTS: A FOCUS ON PORT HARCOURT SEA PORT

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Abstract


The Nigerian sea port has been of very serious economic concern to various administrations such that at regular times the management and administrators has been changed to meet up with world best practices and especially security challenges , considering the strategic nature of the maritime industry, the study used the questionnaire methods and the study findings reveal the following amongs others, that Proper orientation has significant effect on the performance of security personnel and Reduction of security agent helps to reduce cost and delay of the time to process documentations. Finally the paper recommended the following amongst other To properly monitor the rate of smuggling, the top officials should stop giving orders that will allow smuggling in the port. some form of incentives should be given to the security official in order to motivate them.


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Nigerian Sea Port, Security Challenges, Security Agents, and Nigerian Socio-Economy

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